One of the reasons for staying at the Altona was that the breakfast was included, the other was the free Wi-Fi. So up we got and went to the underground dinning room to eat, orange juice, cereal, bread, jam, croissant and hot drinks were all available ,Geoff and I ate but Maddison didn’t quite manage.
We headed off to Notre Dame, where Nick preached (to me) on justification, at the back was the memorial to the martyrs of the deportation, then over the lovers bride where couples leave a locked padlock to show their undying love for each other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_de_l%27Archev%C3%AAch%C3%A9 .
We wandered south towards St. Etienne du Mont where Blaise Pascal’s tomb is and the steps were used in the film ‘Midnight in Paris’ that we had watched a couple of weeks earlier with Ivy. The church is opposite the Pantheon where a lot of famous French people are buried, we were asked not to eat on the steps!
From here we meandered through the streets with Geoff pointing out various sights he found in the book. A Roman amphitheatre that was found during excavation for the metro, the Sorbonne, statues and various fancy looking churches, towers and buildings, Pont Neuf, the most romantic park in Paris, the Paris beaches on the banks of the Seine and finally our destination of the day the Louvre.
Maddy was out of energy by now so we headed to the Place de la Concorde and the metro (where the wall is one giant word search) to leave her at the hotel. Later we came back out and tried taking some night shots (without a tripod) so only limited success there! It wasn’t dark when we headed off, so we went to see the Pompidou centre, then the Hotel de Ville with the big sports screen outside followed by Notre Dame and the Louvre and the Eiffel tower.
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